Big Bend Slider

Trachemys gaigeae

Reptilestrong against amphibians, mammals

Rare

Scales

While active with another reptile in play, it takes 3 less damage (6 with two others).

Trachemys gaigeae

Photo: iNaturalist (original photo) · CC0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Amphibians
Mammals

Weak against

Birds
Fungi

Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.

The species

The Big Bend slider (Trachemys gaigeae), also called commonly the Mexican Plateau slider and la jicotea de la meseta mexicana in Mexican Spanish, is a species of aquatic turtle in the family Emydidae. The species is native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Big Bend slider, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Rare.

Observations: 530 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 1.9 kg

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from130 points, the Rare budget

Every Rare card has 130 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

HP 39
ATK 47
DEF 44

How they’re shared out:

Type: Reptile: HP 36, ATK 30 and DEF 34 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 530 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.